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Sunday 29th of July 2014 - LIVE starts 05:45 GMT


After BMX (2010) and mountain bike (2013), Pietermaritzburg welcomes its third UCI World Championships. Beside several former World Champions will also take the start, such as Switzerland's Ralph Näf (2006), the Belgian Roel Paulissen (2008, 2009) and the Greek Ilias Periklis (2012), the world elite in mountain long distance confirmed their participation. Who will be the winner at the end of the 95km course, where the men have 3150 climbing meters to endure in their race? this year also Christoph Sauser from Switzerland hunting for his fourth World Champion title, bronze medallist at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, double UCI World Cup winner (2004 and 2005) including 12 race victories, then 2008 World Champion, he moved away from cross-country at the end of the 2012 season to concentrate on long distance. In the 74 km distance women race, Denmark's Annika Langvad, winner in 2011 and 2012 would appear to be the best placed for victory. Winner of the mythical Cape Epic at the beginning of the season, Langvad will be up against the new European Champion Tereza Hurikova (CZE). Then there is England's Sally Bigham, silver medalist last year, who could just ride the race of her life to become the first British winner of a UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships.
Others to look out for in the list of favorites include Switzerland's Ester Süss and Germany's Sabine Spitz, who won the title in 2009 and 2010.


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